Congrats to No. 9-seed General Flashman, who is the first player to reach the World Championship quarterfinals with a four-set victory over No. 8 markec. Looks like the luck of the cards doomed markec's chances for taking it to a fifth set.

Tournament quarterfinals should be underway in a few days...#3 seed b00060 advances with a three-set sweep and #7 flexmaster moves on in a hard-fought five-setter against negoeien. So far, the higher seed has advanced in four of the five completed matches.

We have our first major upset of the tourney with #15 shoop76 taking out #2 olkok in four sets...olkok struggled with his serve in the fourth set going three straight rounds without conquering a territory.

Available quarterfinal matches have been sent out, while we wait on the two active first-rounders to wrap up.

The quarterfinal between b00060 & ga7 just concluded in what was an epic battle with tiebreaker (16 rounds ) in the 5th set!

CCN: How do you feel after this victory ga7?ga7: Exhausted! b00060 is CC's Davydenko, he keeps coming, makes no faults, and just puts it right on the line when he wants to. When I was leading 5-1 (grabbing a +3 bonus) he just did 4 straight winners to catch back! (taking 6 territs and almost breaking me)

CCN: What are your thoughts about the next opponent? ga7: It's gonna be tough, I saw on the panel they were entering a 5th set also, I can only hope he'll be as wasted as I am today. I hope flex will make it, it'd be fun for the organizer to have a shot at the finals

ga7 wrote:The quarterfinal between b00060 & ga7 just concluded in what was an epic battle with tiebreaker (16 rounds ) in the 5th set!

CCN: How do you feel after this victory ga7?ga7: Exhausted! b00060 is CC's Davydenko, he keeps coming, makes no faults, and just puts it right on the line when he wants to. When I was leading 5-1 (grabbing a +3 bonus) he just did 4 straight winners to catch back! (taking 6 territs and almost breaking me)

CCN: What are your thoughts about the next opponent? ga7: It's gonna be tough, I saw on the panel they were entering a 5th set also, I can only hope he'll be as wasted as I am today. I hope flex will make it, it'd be fun for the organizer to have a shot at the finals

I've gotta be pulling for GA7 after my desperate comeback bid fell short against him in the first round, but I have to wonder the impact of playing back to back 5 setters will have on him in the semis... Hopefully he'll be able to rest up and take home the title. If not, I suppose flex would be my sentimental favorite on account of our days on the Oregon track team.

Congrats to our tournament winner ga7, who took the #6 seed into the World finals, survived a couple five-set battles early on then smashed myself in the semis and beat Highlander Attack in four sets in the finals. Ga7 finished the tournament with an impressive 24-7 match record.

Well done, and thanks to all who played. I'll probably run something similar next summer...I always try to come up with at least a tournament or two that is based on the prize $$$ concept, so perhaps we'll see you again.